Mr. Long's Woes; Solving the Unemployed Question: Projected Flight to New Zealand: The Precious Metal: Royal Commission into Picture Industry Fuow Our Own Melbourne, June 11, there is one State Premier in Australia who is feeling sorry for himself at the present moment, it the Premier of New South Wales, Mtr, Long. His term of office has not been by any means a sinecure. side being in direct opposition to the majority of his own party, on several occasions he has crossed swords with the Governor of the: hes a grouse with Togical justifica-'The Trades Hall does not recognize his union, but the Trades Hall is the appointed organization giving out jobs and relief. It effectively eschews all single unemployed. non-unionist, and is not an absolute-good Samaritan to any nonunionist, with the result that men and sleeping out amidst winter wi id rains.
State, Sir Dudley St. Clair, on the question of the abolition of the Upper Chamber, better known as the Legislative Council, In following in the footsteps of that ardent} Labour leader, Mr, Thomas Ryan, who experienced little difficulty an accomplishing what Mr. Long. ha {ailed to do—pack the Upper Chan ber and pass the desired legis tion—Mr, Long found his Upp Chamber members refused sto be disbanded. Perhaps this inglorious failure had much to do with Awindling from his' immediate followers of some of the ablest men on his side in polities. When Mr. Long went a step further, and embraced some arrant radicals of the Labour party he was stepping upon quicksands, This discovery prompted the Premier to act swiftly and disastrously and resigned, thus foreing his whole ministry, whether they wished or not, also to resign.
Swittly upon this move, and the formation a8 agreed with the State Governor of a new ministry by Mr, Long, came a meeting of the Labour party, The Labour leaders in the) Federal Parliament did their utmost to prevent a complete breakaway, but with no avail. The AL. P, declared Mr, Long's move: ment: to be a "traitorous ation" and] expelled him, and all his followers, from the Labour movement. When the great breakaway of the Labour party progressives, under Mr. William Morris Hughes, took place, Mr, 'Hughes was in a position to form coalition with the Liberal party and thus have a majority behind him at the coming elections, but, in ths case of the New South' Wales Preier, he does not possess a majority, and the Nationalists would not serve under his leadership, however momentous the issue. Mr. Long 's doomed to arrive at a stage of o vian, like so many autocrats, Labour and Liberal, who have attempted to force with an iron rod their own personality rule upon the fr ensy-going Australians, The tralian are repulsed by extremes of politics, and a happy medium appears to please them best in the end,
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